SOME EXPERIENCES IN THE OIL BUSINESS During the years when I was just coming to man's estate, the produce business of Clark & Rockefeller went on prosperously, and in the early sixties we organized a firm to refine and deal in oil.

It was composed of Messrs.

James and Richard Clark, Mr.Samuel Andrews, and the firm of Clark & Rockefeller, who were the company.

It was my first direct connection with the oil trade.

As the new concern grew the firm of Clark & Rockefeller was called upon to supply a large special capital.
Mr.Samuel Andrews was the manufacturing man of the concern, and he had learned the process of cleansing the crude oil by the use of sulphuric acid.
In 1865 the partnership was dissolved; it was decided that the cash assets should be collected and the debts paid, but this left the plant and the good-will to be disposed of.